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The harder the conflict

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The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value. I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress and grow brave by reflection. ‘Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.

Thomas Paine

People usually consider walking on wate

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People usually consider walking on water or in thin air a miracle. But I think the real miracle is not to walk either on water or in thin air, but to walk on earth. Every day we are engaged in a miracle which we don’t even recognize: a blue sky, white clouds, green leaves, the black, curious eyes of a child — our own two eyes. All is a miracle.

Thich Naht Hanh

So much of our time is preparation

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So much of our time is preparation, so much is routine, and so much retrospect, that the path of each man’s genius contracts itself to a very few hours.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

What a man really wants is creative challenge

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What a man really wants is creative challenge with sufficient skills to bring him within the reach of success so that he may have the expanding joy of achievement.

Fay B. Nash

If we listened to our intellect

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If we listened to our intellect, we’d never have a love affair. We’d never have a friendship. We’d never go into business, because we’d be too cynical. Well, that’s nonsense. You’ve got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down.

Ray Bradbury

Do not depend on the hope of results

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Do not depend on the hope of results. You may have to face the fact that your work will be apparently worthless and even achieve no result at all, if not perhaps results opposite to what you expect. As you get used to this idea, you start more and more to concentrate not on the results, but on the value, the rightness, the truth of the work itself. You gradually struggle less and less for an idea and more and more for specific people. In the end, it is the reality of personal relationship that saves everything.

Thomas Merton

The moment when you first wake up

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The moment when you first wake up in the morning is the most wonderful of the twenty-four hours. No matter how weary or dreary you may feel, you possess the certainty that, during the day that lies before you, absolutely anything may happen. And the fact that it practically always doesn’t, matters not a jot. The possibility is always there.

Monica Baldwin

People usually consider walking on water

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Forgiveness is freeing up

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Forgiveness is freeing up and putting to better use the energy once consumed by holding grudges, harboring resentments, and nursing unhealed wounds. It is rediscovering the strengths we always had and relocating our limitless capacity to understand and accept other people and ourselves.

Sidney and Suzanne Simon

When you have once seen the glow of happiness

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When you have once seen the glow of happiness on the face of a beloved person, you know that a man can have no vocation but to awaken that light on the faces surrounding him; and you are torn by the thought of the unhappiness and night you cast, by the mere fact of living, in the hearts you encounter.

Albert Camus

I think that everything is possible

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I think that everything is possible as long as you put your mind to it and you put the work and time into it. I think your mind really controls everything.

Michael Phelps

The moment when you first wake

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People usually consider walking

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When you have once seen the glow

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If you’re new here

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Billy Graham

Leaders aren’t born they are made

2011-03-29T00:20:00.001-07:00

Leaders aren’t born they are made. And they are made just like anything else, through hard work. And that’s the price we’ll have to pay to achieve that goal, or any goal.

Vince Lombardi

I know the price of success

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I know the price of success: dedication, hard work, and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen.

Frank Lloyd Wright

Many of life’s failures are people

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Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

Thomas Alva Edison

Goals are not only absolutely

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Goals are not only absolutely necessary to motivate us. They are essential to really keep us alive.

Robert H. Schuller

If we listened to our intellect

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Nothing in the world can take

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Nothing in the world can take the place of perseverance. Talent will not; Nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; Unrewarded genius is almost legendary; Education will not; The world is full of educated derelicts. Perseverance and Determination alone are omnipotent.

President Calvin Coolidge

The illiterate of the 21st century

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The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.

Alvin Toffler

Half our life is spent

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Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save.

Will Rogers

The truth is that our finest

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The truth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in such moments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of our ruts and start searching for different ways or truer answers.

M. Scott Peck

He who asks a question

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He who asks a question may be a fool for five minutes, but he who never asks a question remains a fool forever.

Tom Connelly